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Isma-eel Dollie has gone from the Springbok training squad to club rugby. The talented young flyhalf is now expected to turn out for the Oasis SK-Walmers club this weekend.

Adnaan Mohamed writes in Die Burger that Dollie was available to play for Boland in the Currie Cup match against Western Province at Newlands but the Cavaliers have retained Elgar Watts at No 10.

The former SA Under-21 player was in the national training squad early this season and played in the Emerging Springboks team that won the Nations Cup in Romania.

However, he failed to get into the WP team for the Currie Cup competition. He was among the substitutes for three matches without getting any game time.

With Springbok Peter Grant, Willem de Waal and Naas Olivier at the front of the queue in the WP squad, the 23-year-old Dollie was released to play for Boland, where he enjoyed some success last year.

He started training at Wellington but the Cavaliers did not select him for the match against the Blue Bulls, which they lost last week.

Outstanding playmaker

And on Wednesday he was also overlooked for the match against his WP team-mates.

Boland coach Deon Davids said on Monday he would consider Dollie for the Newlands match, describing him as an outstanding playmaker, ball distributor and tactical kicker.

On Wednesday, Dollie was informed that he had not been included in Boland’s 22 for the match against their neighbours.

It is now likely that Dollie will have a run for his club on Saturday.

It appears the Boland selectors did not even include Dollie among the substitutes because they feared he might be exposed to unnecessary pressure. Neil Papier and Stefan Basson can play at flyhalf if needed.

Cant understand why he havent take Phil Pretorius invitation to play for SWD. Now another talented 10 , Ricardo Croy took that one.

The same old same with 9s & Delport. I was waiting a long time for this to happen. The Bokke have Bolla & Januarie, then this young talented players like Duvenhage (Paarl Gim), Marnus Hugo (Paarl Gim), Conrad Hoffmann(Paarl Boishai) & Siegelaar (Paul Roos) start get to the top.

This make buys like Brown, Willem & Januarie a bit of a joke but the Stormers are in need of experiense players to get the balance right.

Trust me one bad game from Bolla and he is out.

Comment 15, posted at 24.07.08 10:24:52 by PaarlBok

Dont know what happen to Human but happy to see the Klawer & Gimmie fatty Adriaanse on the bench.

Comment 16, posted at 24.07.08 10:28:33 by PaarlBok

lol. There are only two people in the world that rate Dollie – PdV and our very own wpw…